Door-holding device



July 8, 1930. F, o ERlcKsoN 1,770,202

DOOR HOLDING DEVICE Filed April 17, 1929 zany/:0 2, Exam mai'iig'q Patented July 8, 1930 rnANKo. EnIcKsoN, OF Aoiauian, RHODE ISLAND ,noon-HoLnInG DEVICE Application filed April '17,

My invention relates to devices for holding and controlling garage doors.

The essential objects of my invention are to retain the door against wind and rattle either in open or closed position; to insure certainty of action; and to attain these ends in a strong and inexpensive structure adapted to facile embodiment in doors of varying construction.

1o To the above ends essentially my invention consists in such parts and in such combinations ofparts as fall within the scope of the appended claim.. a

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specificationv Figure 1 is a front elevation of my device as viewed from the interior of the garage, the door being closed,

Figure 2, a section of the door frame taken on line 22 of Figure 1, the door being open,

Figure 3, a top plan view of a portion of my device, the door being open, and the door frame being shown in horizontal section, and

Figure 4, a fragmentary section taken on 4 line 4-4 of Figure 1.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the views.

In the drawings 6 represents the door frame, and 7 the door of a garage or other building both of usual construction; the door being connected with the frame as usual by hinges 8, one only of which is'shown. A swiveled or I swinging bracket 10 depends from the door frame and comprises a base 11 and a depending body 12. Loose in a centrally located hole 13 in the base is a screw 14: fixed in the door frame and upon which the member 10 is pivoted. Centrally of the shank or body portion of the bracket is a hole 16. A cylindrical rod 17 flattened at its outer end, as at 18, is slidable through the hole 16. The latter is of considerable diameter relatively to that of the rod for a purpose which will vbe later apparent. Upon the inner end of the rod is anannular shoulder or-nut 19, adjacent which in the lower portion of the rod is a 1 V 7 Assuming the door to be closed, the operator segmental recess 20. In an intermediate portion of the part 18 of the rod 17 is an opening 21 through which loosely passes a depending pin 22 with a head 23 upon its lower ex- 1929. Serial No. 355,751.

tremity This pin is fixedin the apex ofan obtuse angular bar 24 fixed by screws 25 to the upper portion of the door. The pin 22 depends some distance below the bar 24c to afford ample vibratory movement in a vertical direction of the rod 17 which is adapted under certain conditions torock upon the pin head 23. In addition to the rocking movement the rod has. pivotal movement uponthepin 22.

The angular formation of the bar 2 affords an angular recess for a lever 27 resting 'a'gainst the rear face of the bar 24 having its forward end slightly angularly bent to conform to the angular 'contourof the CL centerof the latter. The forward portion of this lever has an inclined or beveled shoulderv 29 upontits upper edge. The leveris pivoted ata point nearer its rear-end'than its forward end, upon a pin 30. To prevent excessive tilting of this lever there is integral with'the upper portion of the bar a rearwardly directed stop shoulder 31. The lever 27 is purposed to cooperate with a catch now to be described. I

Fixed at one end to the under face of the horizontal portion of the'door frame 6 by screws or pins 32 is a downwardly inclined fiat resilient arm 33 having upon its free end a downwardly projecting substantially triangular head 35 comprising a rounded or inclined nose portion 36 upon its forward end, and a vertical shoulder 37 upon its rear end. When the door 7 is closed the head 35 rides over and snaps behind the bar 24 in which position the shoulder 37 looks the door against accidental opening.

Fixed to a staple or ring 39 in the outer end of the rod 17 is'one end or section 40fof a depending chain loop 11. The other end or section 12 of the chain is attached, through a hole 42, to the rear end of the lever 27. The chain loop 11, fragmentarily shown herein depends sufficiently to. be within reach of the operator.

Theoperatlon of my device is as follows.

pullsdownwardly upon the chain 41 which, through the end 42 elevates the lever 27 and raises the head 35 above the plane of the bar 10 24. At the same time the door 7 is manually pushed outwardly. As the door opens the rod 27 slides through the guide member 10 without danger of cramping, because of the swivel action of the latter upon the pin 14. When the door has reached its outward limit the inner end of the rod 17 by gravity descends and the recess 20 is engaged by the wall of the hole 16 in the member 10 and thereby the door is looked against reolosing under the influence of the wind.

In order to reclose the door the rod 17 must be freed from its locked position. The chain &1 is, therefore, pulled downwardly which, through the end 40 tilts the inner end of the rod upwardly upon the fulcrum of the pin head 23 to the position shown in broken lines in Figure 2. Thus the recess 20 is freed from the member 10 and the door is swung closed, the catch member 35 snapping into engagement to lock the door during the final period of travel of the latter.

I claim a In a door holding mechanism, an angular bar carried by the door, a guide swivelly supported by the door frame provided with a hole, a rod slidable in the hole and provided with a recess in one end and an opening near its other end, a depending pin in the bar extending loosely through the opening, a head upon the pin upon which the rod is fulcrumed and pivoted, and a flexible member depending from the extremity of the rod remote from the recess.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature.

FRANK O. ERICKSON. 

